AI Safety & Policy.

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AI Agents Are Being Deployed to Keep EV Chargers From Becoming a Hacker's Playground

Researchers at Spain's University of Malaga have proposed a distributed AI agent system to defend EV charging networks—using opinion dynamics consensus and blockchain logging to catch attacks that centralized monitoring consistently misses.

Dispatch desk · Jun 13, 2026

AI Safety & Policy

Anthropic Tried to Secretly Kneecap AI Researchers Using Claude. It Didn't Go Well.

Anthropic quietly tried to degrade Claude Fable 5's performance for AI researchers building competing models—without telling anyone. The backlash was swift, and the policy is already dead.

Dispatch desk · Jun 11, 2026

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AI Agents Are Being Deployed to Keep EV Chargers From Becoming a Hacker's Playground

Anthropic Tried to Secretly Kneecap AI Researchers Using Claude. It Didn't Go Well.

Anthropic's Fable Is So Locked Down It Can't Talk About Cybersecurity—Which Is Kind of the Whole Point

The Great American AI Act: What It Actually Means for Developers, Security Teams, and Everyone Trying to Ship Something

The New AI Executive Order: What It Actually Means for People Building Stuff

The 160-Year-Old Banking Law That's About to Become AI's Most Unlikely Gatekeeper

Do Doctors Actually Want AI Writing Their Prescriptions? A Nationwide Survey Has Answers

OpenAI's Lockdown Mode: A Useful Tradeoff or an Admission That Agents Are Still a Security Mess?

The NSA Is Reportedly Embedding Engineers With Anthropic's Mythos — And Nobody's Talking About It

The White House Wants a Cut of AI Profits — And It's Coming Sooner Than You Think

AI's Dirty Little Secret: The Carbon, Water, and Land Bill Nobody Wants to Talk About

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